About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

May 9......

May 9 is the 129th (130th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Families "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week." — Mario Cuomo

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshippers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?" — Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of The 700 Club.

Thought for the day: "Honi soit qui mal y pense. (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it.)"

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

● 328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.

● 1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.

● 1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England

● 1429 - Joan of Arc defeated the besieging English at Orleans.

● 1432 - Charges of witchcraft dismissed against Margery Jourdemain, John Virley, and John Ashwell, in England. They're executed for littering instead.

● 1450 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (Timurid monarch) assassinated.

● 1460 - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings

● 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World".

● 1519 - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government

● 1573 - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king

● 1588 - Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris France

● 1619 - In Holland, the six month long Synod of Dort ended. Confirming the authority of the "Heidelberg Catechism," the decisions of the Synod led to some 200 Arminian clergy being afterward deprived of their offices.

● 1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

● 1689 - English King William III declares war on France

● 1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

● 1738 - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies

● 1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament

● 1766 - John Byron back in England after trip around the world

● 1785 - Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles

● 1788 - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

● 1800 - Birth of abolitionist John Brown. Torrington, Conn.

● 1828 - Birth of Andrew Murray, South African Dutch Reformed clergyman and devotional writer. His most famous writing was "Abide in Christ" (1864).

● 1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.

● 1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

● 1942 - World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.

● 1942 - Holocaust: German SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The victims were shot with machine gun in ravine on the order from Gebietskomissar Eggers and Chief of Gendarmerie Busse.

● 1943 - 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia

● 1943 - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens

● 1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana

● 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested

● 1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol

● 1945 - Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

● 1945 - Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling arrested

● 1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square

● 1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

● 1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.

● 1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.

● 1945 - U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

● 1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.

● 1949 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.

● 1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration," is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.

● 1951 - Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River

● 1955 - West Germany accepted into NATO; West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at a special ceremony in Paris.

● 1956 - Mystery of missing frogman deepens; Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refuses to give details about the disappearance of a naval diver during a goodwill visit by the Soviet leadership.

● 1961 - English apologist C.S. Lewis, offering an evaluation of English Bible translations, wrote in a letter: 'A modern translation is for most purposes far more useful than the Authorized [i.e., King James] Version.'

● 1967 - Muhammed Ali stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusing military draft.

● 1969 - New York Times reveals the United States has been secretly bombing Cambodia--officially a noncombatant, neutral country.

● 1970 - Five days after the Kent State killings, 100,000 march in Washington, D.C. against Vietnam War. About 600 Canadian protesters deface the Peace Arch at the U.S.-Canadian border, Blaine, Washington.

● 1971 - Nguyen Thi Co immolates herself in protest of Vietnam War.

● 1971 - Resistance to militarization of Larzac begins with march from Millau to La Cavalerie, France.

● 1972 - Some 2,000 anti-war protesters march from the Univ. of Washington to Seattle's Federal Court House, where they make camp.

● 1973 - End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Protesters, U.S. sign agreement in which the U.S. government agrees to examine Lakota treaty rights; due to government inaction, the treaty never takes effect.

● 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.

● 1980 - In Florida, Liberian freighter SS Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.

● 1980 - In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunman and two police officers were killed while thirty-three police and civilian vehicles were destroyed in the chase.

● 1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.

● 1983 - John Paul II announced the reversal of the Catholic Church's 1633 condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the scientist who first espoused the Copernican (i.e., heliocentric) view of our solar system. {This was too little much, much too late.}

● 1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

● 1994 - Massachusetts murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York

● 1994 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus

● 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.

● 1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam

● 1999 - Chinese anger at embassy bombing; Major cities in China see their biggest demonstrations for years since the destruction by NATO bombs of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

● 2000 - Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion schemes to manipulate the licensing of riverboat casinos.

● 2002 - Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening suspended executions in his state while a study was done on whether the death penalty was being meted out in a racially discriminatory way. (Glendening's successor, Gov. Robert Ehrlich, lifted the moratorium seven months later.)

● 2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.

● Roman Catholic:● Our Lady of Flanders● St. Beatus of Vendome● St. Brynoth● St. Carolina● St. Gerontius (died 501)● St. Gorfor● St. Hermas● St. John of Chalons● St. Pachomius (died 346)● St. Sanctan● St. Tudi● St. Vincent● Bl. Thomas Pickering

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for (Civil Date: May 9)● Hieromartyr Symeon the kinsman of the Lord.● St. Stephen, abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop Vladimir in Volhynia.● St. John, abbot of Cathares Monastery at Constantinople.● New-Martyr Elias Ardunis of Mt. Athos.● St. Seraphim, Bishop of Phanar.

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.